MUDIE, Charles Edward (1816-1890)
1CL Mudie's Commercial Library 1842-1890
Mudie, a bookseller, built up a great Victorian institution. It lost its all-but-unique reputation during the 20th century due, inter alia, to powerful commercial competition and to the developing public library movement. Mudie's finally closed in 1937.
G L Griest Mudie's circulating library and the Victorian novel (1970).
1CL Mudie's Commercial Library 1842-1890
Mudie, a bookseller, built up a great Victorian institution. It lost its all-but-unique reputation during the 20th century due, inter alia, to powerful commercial competition and to the developing public library movement. Mudie's finally closed in 1937.
G L Griest Mudie's circulating library and the Victorian novel (1970).